I'm the new "frog" in town
Hi all, Salut à tous,
I'll be brief in both languages... I'm a guy from Quebec city in Canada. I'm the oldest in th family and I was the one do know the Nes at first hand. We brawled and played my brothers and I. I missed those times. (Sigh) Anyway, I've done a master in multimedia design with always the same phrase: softwares are badly done and Internet pages are poorly designed (as it was about 10 years ago)! I've always had many remembering with good friends as the old games were sooooo good (few of them at least), why oh why can't people have to put 3D and shimshams into games when good gameplay is enough!
Adding to those thoughts the fact that video gaming in stream seems to be the future of gaming... I was pissed. In the same time I began to read and listen to podcasts about the "god old stuff". One thing I am is a collector in the soul, I just never had any money or deep strong passion for cards or others to go through the motion. The Idea of playing WITH antiques.... now that's my stuff.
So I'm :
a) A freak that loves exceptions in collections (i.e.: the 1953-1954 shoulder stripes canadian one cent kinda deal). I love when an article as it's own story, it's particularities. For example, I knew that Tetris had multiple titles... I remember the best to be the Tengen one, but When I found out that it is an dying title as it was mostly physically destroyed by Nintendo I knew I had to salvage such titles. So my first taste of history was a Factory Seal Tetris Tengen... from then it's pure pleasure in discovering the weird stories of titles I thought I knew and the titles I never knew.
b) I'm a player to the heart. I'm a grown up and I wish someday to present to my childs the pleasure of simple fun hard games. I wish my old friends to come to my house, for them to take my collection and to hear them say: Oh my God... you got that? And you play with it? And for me to awnser : Of course wanna join? and to see their childs play with their fathers and mothers game, as we would do with a classic "ToysRus-can't-kill-it-but-still-love-it" toy, passed throught generations.
So I've got two collections: the Playable collection (only great fun titles) and Factory Seal collection, slowly building up. I'm not a CIB kinda guy, but who knows... one day? Know that I'm looking for Canadian titles as I like the rarity factor, but I'll always consider offers. I don't bite and I've very recently discovered that it's one of my big passion: history of video games.
I'm starting slowly a manual collection as well... but I don't know how to preserve them nicely... a hand someone?
I've been way longer than expected, so if you what the french "froggy" canadian to speack with, just send me a post.
Best picks so far:
FS Tetris Tengen
CAN CluCluLand
CAN Kirby Adventure
Famicon Contra
Contra Force
Famicon Miracle Baby Upa
My Utopian dream:
Help me to grab a Tetris Tengen Poster in good shape
If you need help with Canadian/rare titles tell me... It'll give me a reason to check in town and to trade with you!
See ya
I'll be brief in both languages... I'm a guy from Quebec city in Canada. I'm the oldest in th family and I was the one do know the Nes at first hand. We brawled and played my brothers and I. I missed those times. (Sigh) Anyway, I've done a master in multimedia design with always the same phrase: softwares are badly done and Internet pages are poorly designed (as it was about 10 years ago)! I've always had many remembering with good friends as the old games were sooooo good (few of them at least), why oh why can't people have to put 3D and shimshams into games when good gameplay is enough!
Adding to those thoughts the fact that video gaming in stream seems to be the future of gaming... I was pissed. In the same time I began to read and listen to podcasts about the "god old stuff". One thing I am is a collector in the soul, I just never had any money or deep strong passion for cards or others to go through the motion. The Idea of playing WITH antiques.... now that's my stuff.
So I'm :
a) A freak that loves exceptions in collections (i.e.: the 1953-1954 shoulder stripes canadian one cent kinda deal). I love when an article as it's own story, it's particularities. For example, I knew that Tetris had multiple titles... I remember the best to be the Tengen one, but When I found out that it is an dying title as it was mostly physically destroyed by Nintendo I knew I had to salvage such titles. So my first taste of history was a Factory Seal Tetris Tengen... from then it's pure pleasure in discovering the weird stories of titles I thought I knew and the titles I never knew.
b) I'm a player to the heart. I'm a grown up and I wish someday to present to my childs the pleasure of simple fun hard games. I wish my old friends to come to my house, for them to take my collection and to hear them say: Oh my God... you got that? And you play with it? And for me to awnser : Of course wanna join? and to see their childs play with their fathers and mothers game, as we would do with a classic "ToysRus-can't-kill-it-but-still-love-it" toy, passed throught generations.
So I've got two collections: the Playable collection (only great fun titles) and Factory Seal collection, slowly building up. I'm not a CIB kinda guy, but who knows... one day? Know that I'm looking for Canadian titles as I like the rarity factor, but I'll always consider offers. I don't bite and I've very recently discovered that it's one of my big passion: history of video games.
I'm starting slowly a manual collection as well... but I don't know how to preserve them nicely... a hand someone?
I've been way longer than expected, so if you what the french "froggy" canadian to speack with, just send me a post.
Best picks so far:
FS Tetris Tengen
CAN CluCluLand
CAN Kirby Adventure
Famicon Contra
Contra Force
Famicon Miracle Baby Upa
My Utopian dream:
Help me to grab a Tetris Tengen Poster in good shape
If you need help with Canadian/rare titles tell me... It'll give me a reason to check in town and to trade with you!
See ya
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I'm holding out that some day in the wild i'll stumble onto a canadian big box Gyromite or a canadian CIB stackup LOL
"Canada Rules Jerks!"